J~OHN BRINSMEAD AND SONS’ GOLD MEDAL AN O FOR TE S Jl were awarded THE GRAND MEDAL OE HONOR and DIPLOMA OP MERIT, Philadelphia, 1576 THE GOLD MEDAL, Paris, 1870 THE HIGHEST AWARD, the GRAND DIPLOMA OF HONOR, Paris, 1574 LA MEDAILLE D’HONNEUR, Paris, 1867 THE PRIZE MEDAL, London, 1862 LE DIPLOME DE LA MENTION EXTRAORDINAIRE, Netherlands International Exhibition, ISG9 THE GOLD MEDAL, Diploma of Honor, South Africa, 1877, &c, &c. SONS’ ACTION OHN BRINSMEAD AND PERFECT CHECK REPEATER PIANOS, were Patented 1562, ISOS, 1871, and 1875, in GREAT BRITAIN, ITALY, PRUSSIA, BELGIUM, FRANCE, and AUSTRIA, AMERICA. JOHN BRINS MEAD AND SON S’ GOLD MEDAL PIANOS, With the Patent Perfect Check Repeater Action. 2, Manchester Square. I have examined Messrs Brinsmead and Sons’ New Check Action as applied to their Pianos, and consider it a most ingenious and valuable invention, which cannot fail to meet with' success. Sir JULIUS BENEDICT. JOHN BRINSMEAD AND SON S’ GOLD MEDAL PIANOS, With the Patent Perfect Check Repeater Action. 45, Bland ford Square, N.W. I have much pleasure in testifying to the great excellence of Messrs John Brinsmead and Sons’ Pianofortes. Their “Perfect Check Repeater” produces i touch that is absolute perfection, and which is tmsurpassed by any other maker, native or foieign. SYDNEY SMITH. JOHN BRINSMEAD AND SON S’ GOLD MEDAL PIANOS, With the Patent Perfect Check Repeater Action. 6, St. Mary Abbott’s Terrace, Kensington, W. To Messrs John Brinsmead and Sons. I have much pleasure in testifying to the efficiency of Messrs Brinsmead and Sons’ New Patent Check Action (for Pianofortes), which I consider a very clever and useful invention, and likely to be extensively adopted. BRINLEY RICHARDS. JOHN BRINSMEAD AND SON S’ GOLD MEDAL PIANOS, With the Patent Perfect Check Repeater Action. 8, Lower Rock Gardens, Brighton. Messrs John Brinsmead and Sons. Gentlemen, —lt gives me the greatest pleasure to state that I consider the instruments manufactured by you to be most excellent in tone, touch, and quality of material. I particularly admire your Pianos with the Patent Check Repeater Action and New Grand Construction, being a wonderful improvement upon the old system. In my opinion your firm have been successful in creating as good a touch to the Cottage Pianoforte as that usually accorded to the Grand. All those I have chosen have given the greatest satisfaction to the purchasers.—l am, gentlemen, yours very truly, W. KUHE. TOHN BRINSMEAD AND SON S’ SHORT IRON GRAND PIANOS, With the Patent Perfect Check Repeater Action. “ Sir Julius Benedict, now seldom heard as a soloist, delighted the public once more by his arrangement of ‘ Where the Bee Sucks.’ He played npon a new Patent Grand by Brinsmead, possessing a remarkably loud and clear tone.” — Echo. “The upright Iron Gx'and Piano, with sostenente sounding board, produced the obvious result of a fuller and richer tone.”— Morning Advertiser. JOHN BRINSMEAD AND SON S’ SHORT IRON GRAND PIANOS, With the Patent Perfect Check Repeater Action. “ The improvements made in English pianos have caused this trade repidly to increase, until one pianoforte manufactory after another has been built to supply the growing demand. One of the largest of these, lately erected by Messrs John Brinsmead and Sons, of Wigmore-street, covers nearly an acre of ground in the Grafton Road, Kentish Town, and is intended to accommodate 300 workmen. These works alone can supply 3000 pianos annually.” —llhistrated London Neics. JOHN BRINSMEAD AND SON S’ GOLD MEDAL PIANOS, With the Patent Perfect Check Repeater Action. “ Beautiful, light, and elastic touch, and an instant repitetion. ” — Globe. TOHN BRINSMEAD AND SON S’ GOLD MEDAL PIANOS, with the Patent Perfect Check Repeater Action. On the Three Years’ System. I ‘ ‘ Receives th e greatest approbation The Standard )-everywhere of musicians and manuj facturers." J OHN BRINSMEAD AND SON S’ PATENT “ PERFECT CHECK REPEATER ACTION ” PIANOFORTES, of every description, mamifactured expressly for India and extreme climates. FOHN BRINSMEAD AND SON S’ GOLD MEDAL PIANOS, With the Patent Perfect Check Repeater Action, From 35 to 330 Guineas. JOHN BRINSMEAD AND SON S’ GOLD MEDAL PIANOS. The following eminent Musical Authorities (the most celebrated throughout Europe and America) have also unanimously certified to the superiority of John Brinsmead and Sons’ Pianofortes by awarding them the highest honors : Sir Wm. Sterndale Bennett, Mas., D., late Professor University. Cambridge The Rev. Sir Frederick Gore Ouseley, Professor of Music. University of Oxford .Right Hon, Sir George Clerk, F.R.S., Chairman Edinburgh, Chairman R.A.M. Dr. J. B. Black, U.S.A, Hon. Seymour Egerton M. Fetis, late Director of the Royal Conservatory of Music, Belgium Professor M. Lisajous, of the Lyceum of St. Louis Herr Ernst Pauer, Professor R.A.M. Wm. Pole, Mus. 8., F.R.S., Professor University of London. Dr. Henry Wylde, Director of London Academy of Music M. A mbroise Thomas, Member de l’lnstitut, Professor du Conservatoire Imperial de Musique Herr E. Ilanslick, Docteur Professor de l’Histoire dela Musique a l’Universite de Vienna Frederick Clay, Esq., Mus. Reporter to lI.M. GovernmentBaron Donald Mackay, The Hague Herr C. N. David, Copenhagen Marquis d’Andelarre, President of the National Academy, Paris Professor J. Henry, L.L.D., U.S.A. General 11. K. Oliver, U.S.A., Chairman Musical Jury, Philadelphia George F. Bristow, Esq. Sir William Thomson, L.L.D., D.C.L., F.R.S. Herr P. F. Kupka, Vienna M. Edward Favre Perrot, Zurich M. G. Aymar Bression, Director-General of the National Academy, Paris JOHN BRINSMEAD AND SON S’ PIANOFORTES, GUARANTEED FOR FIVE YEARS. *** Illustrated Price Lists and Descriptions, with Opinions of the London Press and Musical Profession, forwarded jxost free upon application. IS, WIGMORE-STREET, LONDON, W. Manufactory : THE BRINSMEAD WORKS, GRAFTON ROAD, KENTISH TOWN, N.W.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 310, 30 March 1878, Page 12
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